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CHAP. XIX. 
Wednesday ^th. The morning was pleasant ; we 
therefore loaded our canoes and proceeded on till 11 
o'clock when we stopped at a large Inditin \iilage on 
the north side ; but a number of the hbts were un- 
occupied. Thev are of the Al-e-is nation. At the 
lime we halted 3 canoe loads of them were setting* 
out for the falls to fish. Vv^e took breakfast here and 
bought 5 dogs from them. The 'vvomen all wear the 
small leather bandage, but are quite naked otherwise/ 
cxvrfpt what is covered by the small robe they wear 
round their shoulders. In the afternoon the v/eather 
became cloudy and some rain fell. In the eveninc^ 
we came to a large rapid at the lower end of Straw- 
berry island ; where there are a number of the natives 
about settling on the north side. Here we crossed 
ovei'5 after buying two dogs from them, and 
camped behind the island. Some rain continued- 
^a-ling. 
I'aursday lOth. A party of men went out to collect 
pi :ch to repair one of our canoes, which was split ; 
and the rest went round the point of the islandV an,.- 
took the canoes over the rapid, (h^p^ at a time, with 
the assistance or a line. Wiien we got over tlie ra- 
pids we crossed to another village of the natives o\\ 
the iiorih sicie, where I saw the skin of a wild sheep, 
which h.ad tine beautiful wool on i'c. Here we took 
breakfast and v.'aited the arrival of the other canoe, 
which in about an hour came up; and the men wluen 
out for pitch killed 3 deer. We proceeded on, auil 
the water was so rapid, that we had to low the canoer* 
up by the line almost all the way to tlie IdiuHat^ at 
the lower end of the^ portage, a distance of it&iit si.-i 
